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Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally

Welborn Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City

Tract 20209040100 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 2,859 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Tract 20209040100 sits in the Welborn area of Kansas City eviction risk, KS, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.8/10. It is home to 2,859 residents. 40% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 21% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units904
Renter share40.0%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate18.6%
Median income$54,444

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Welborn
Elevated
Within parent city
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 61 tracts In Kansas City
Elevated
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#27 of 64 tracts In Wyandotte County
Elevated
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#296 of 829 tracts In Kansas
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.1403, -94.6619 · click any tract to drill in

Why Welborn scores 3.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Kansas City
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Kansas legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
18.6% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,064 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kansas City
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kansas City
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kansas City
3.0

How Welborn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Welborn risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.8This tracttract 0401003.4Kansas Cityparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 88

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Welborn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Welborn

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 31.9% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.3% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Greater Kansas City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters.

It tracks the Wyandotte County average of 3.8 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 20209040100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209040100?

Census tract 20209040100 in the Welborn neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 20209040100?

Median gross rent is $1,064/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 20209040100?

18.6% of residents in tract 20209040100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,859.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 20209040100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 97th, minority 94th, housing 31th.
Q5

Is tract 20209040100 considered part of Welborn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209040100 fall within Welborn (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 20209040100 struggle to pay rent?

About 26.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 19.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 20209040100 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 20209040100 scores 3.8/10, higher than the parent city of Kansas City at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 20209040100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 59% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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